Freedberg, The Eye of the Lynx
Years ago, David Freedberg stumbled across a group of drawings by the little-known Academy of Linceans, a seventeenth-century Italian group that took as ...
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This book brings together for the first time detailed analyses of Tridentine liturgical reform, Counter-Reformation sanctity and the late Renaissance ‘revolution’ in historical ...
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Bernini, The Life of Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680), sculptor, architect, painter, and playwright, was the most influential artist of seventeenth-century Rome and, indeed, one of the leading ...
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Bergdoll, Oechslin, Fragments Architecture and the Unfinished
From the first treatise on architecture in antiquity, wholeness and finality were among the chief aspirations of architects, both in individual designs and ...
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‘French Classicism’ remains an oddly elusive concept, not least because there appears to be an unbridgeable divide between the undisputed greatness of the ...
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From the late fifteenth to the late seventeenth century, Rome was one of the most vibrant and productive centres for the visual arts ...
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The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in France were an epoch of spectacular artistic activity, exemplified by the chateaux of the Loire valley, the ...
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